Mahseer, Tor, and Neolissochilus at Fish Story
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What is the cat that comes into shot at around 10:17 whilst filming the giraffes, doesn’t look to be a vulture but cannot tell id from the video, or was it a smaller girraffe.
It's the Volta female giraffe catfish, the smallest g-cat in the 25K at about 20". The Volta male is even smaller in the 1800 gal, ~14". Both are about 6-7yo if memory serves.
It's a bad idea to shuffle fish in the beginning of the warm season, when many fish are preparing for courtship and spawning. I wanted to give our ~15" Taiwan mahseer a bigger and safer home. The bigger I did, the safer not so much. The predators taste scared new tank mate and even though they cannot prey on it because of comparable size, they still try, namely three 1.5ft lima shovelnose, 2ft dorado catfish, a little bit from black ear shark catfish and even Aral barbel:
